Disciplines across the social and behavioral sciences have documented the critical role of early peer connections in children’s development, yet mechanisms facilitating these connections have not been tested in controlled laboratory settings.
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Xinyu Zhao, PhD – Slide of the Week
The human genome has many short tandem repeats, yet the normal functions of these repeats are unclear.
Donna Werling, PhD – Slide of the Week
Title: Use of the new human telomere-to-telomere genomic reference improves variant calling and phasing in regions flanking developmental disorder-associated copy number variants Legend: Genotyping and switch error rates spike in areas flanking CNV disorder associated regions. …
Marsha R. Mailick, PhD – Slide of the Week
Parenting a child with a developmental disability can be a profound source of stress, particularly for mothers.
Daifeng Wang, PhD – Slide of the Week
Cellular processes like development, differentiation, and disease progression are highly complex and dynamic (e.g., gene expression).
Masatoshi Suzuki, DVM, PhD – Slide of the Week
Although ALS has historically been characterized as a motor neuron disease, there is evidence that motor neurons degenerate in a retrograde manner, beginning in the periphery at the neuromuscular junctions (NMJs) and skeletal muscle.
Brittany G. Travers, PhD – Slide of the Week
…we found that the parvicellular reticular formation-alpha, a part of the brainstem thought to be involved in chewing, digesting food, heart rate, and breathing was related to individual differences in social communication in autistic children
John Svaren, PhD – Slide of the Week
Formation of myelin by Schwann cells is tightly coupled to peripheral nervous system development and is important for neuronal function and long-term maintenance.
André Sousa, PhD – Slide of the Week
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is critical for myriad high-cognitive functions and is associated with several neuropsychiatric disorders.
Rizvi Lab – Slide of the Week
Here, we report the spatial organization of RNA transcription and associated enhancer dynamics in the human spinal cord at single-cell and single-molecule resolution.